TheDicshunary
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doubleplusgood publishing & dicshunary.com collaborate on producing a print version of the Dicshunary (see http://www.dicshunary.com).
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[edit] Texts
Supplementary texts that are going in the printed dicshunary.
- UopGenealogyofMoralsExtract
- UopFururologicalCongressExtract
- UopAndWhatAboutRodruigezExtract
- Uop1984Extract
- WittgensteinExtract
- TalesFromTheCribExtract
[edit] Design
- Research trip 1 - A trip to a few bookshops to look at dictionary designs.
- Dust Jacket idea #1 Gold effect on black dust jacket.
- Dust Jacket idea #2 Paperback ed. blue and yellow, red stripe: imitation pocket dic. (all text is unfinalised)
[edit] Legend and Abbreviations
Words in the dicshunary will be indicated, if relevant, with the abbreviations below, making the book easier to search.
- Insults- (ins.)
- Compliments- (cmp.)
- Combigizms- (cjz.)
- Dental Combigizms - (dcjz.)
- Spuzzwords- (spz.)
- Filth- (fil.)
[edit] Costings
Printing Specs
- Format: 147x100mm
- Extent: 128pp, 4 endsheets
- Substrate: 100gsm matt finish
- Finishing:
Limited print run – leather hardback, gilt edge & embossed spine/ General print run – limp cover & matt laminate
- Binding: lpr – stitch bound/ gpr – perfect bound
- Print run: lpr150/ gpr2000
- Print machine: sheet fed lithographic
- Print format: RA3 sheets (430x305mm), 8-page to view
[edit] Distribution
Art Data – specialist distributors for art & fart books. They buy stock for 55% of cover price and proceed to negotiate with booksellers, taking any % they can get their little hands on. In addition, we will talk directly with Amazon's buyers.
[edit] Dicshunary Links
- The Working Press: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/working_press/
- A fine demonstration of self-instituted and funded publishing, initiated by Stefan Szczelkun.
- The Exploding Cinema: http://www.explodingcinema.org/
- Not strictly about books, but still a great example of underground publishing and distribution.
- Newspeak today: http://world-information.org/wio/readme/992006691/992018876
